Akan
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Akan is a major Central Tano language spoken primarily in Ghana and parts of Côte d’Ivoire, serving as a key lingua franca and cultural language for the Akan people.
Aliases (1)
- Akan Kasa ×1
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Central Tano language
→
Niger–Congo language → language → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Anyin language
→
Baoulé language → |
| countryWithLargeSpeakerPopulation | Ghana → |
| ethnicLanguageOf |
Akan people
→
surface form: "Akuapem people"
Fante people →
surface form: "Ashanti people"
Fante people → |
| glottocode | akan1250 → |
| hasAlternativeName |
Akan
→
surface form: "Akan Kasa"
Akan language → |
| hasDialects |
Akuapem Twi
→
Asante Twi → Fante people →
surface form: "Fante"
|
| hasFeature |
advanced tongue root vowel harmony
→
noun class system remnants → subject–verb–object word order → tonal language → |
| hasISO6391Code | ak → |
| hasISO6392Code | aka → |
| hasISO6393Code | aka → |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative tendencies → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone
→
nasal vowels → |
| hasRegulatingBody | Bureau of Ghana Languages → |
| isMacrolanguageOf |
Fante language
→
Twi → |
| languageBranch | Central Tano → |
| languageFamily |
Niger–Congo languages
→
surface form: "Niger–Congo"
|
| officialStatus | government-sponsored language in Ghana → |
| region |
Côte d'Ivoire
→
surface form: "eastern Côte d’Ivoire"
southern Ghana → |
| spokenIn |
Côte d’Ivoire
NERFINISHED
→
Ghana → West Africa → |
| subclassOf |
Kwa language
→
Potou–Tano languages →
surface form: "Tano language"
|
| usedAs | lingua franca → |
| usedBy | Akan people → |
| usedFor |
oral literature
→
proverbs and folklore → |
| usedIn |
Christian religious practice in Ghana
→
education in Ghana → literature in Ghana → mass media in Ghana → |
| writingSystem | Latin script → |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Akan Kasa"